Calynda coronata "Niño"

Calynda coronata "Niño" Carl, 1913
(by Bruno Kneubuehler)
 

• Bosque del Niño (Costa Rica) 
• identifiied as Calynda coronata by Oskar Conle and Frank Hennemann
   
• 2013 - first successful culture by Bruno Kneubuehler
• 2013 - distributed as Calynda coronata "Niño"
   
• females about 13 - 14 cm long
• brown females with very long subgenital plate
• males about 8 - 9 cm long
• green-brown, thin males
   
• nymphs feed very well on bramble (Rubus spp.), fern and Lonicera nitida (the latter is a common, evergreen garden plant in Europe)
• adults clearly prefer fern
• incubation time (HH-Methode on slightly damp sand) at room temperature is about 4 months
• males are adult after about 3 months (at room temperatures), females after 3 - 4 months
• about 20 eggs per female and week